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eisenhower and his vice president, richard millhous nixon. one of them often bullied the other and usually nixon on the receiving end. check out this 1960 campaign ad from then presidential candidate john f. kennedy. >> every republican politician wants you to believe that richard nixon is, quote, experienced. they even want you to believe that he has actually been making decisions in the white house, but listen to the man who should know best, the president of the united states. a reporter recently asked president eisenhower this question about mr. nixon's experience. >> i just wondered if you could give us an example of a major idea that he has adopted as the decider and final -- >> if you give me a week i might think of one, i don't remember. >> bad. jeffrey frank is the author of the new book "ike and dick." good to see you sir. thanks for coming in. >> good to be here. >> that's just one of many examples of general eisenhower, then president eisenhower, belittling richard nixon. what was it about their relationship? >> well, actually tha
eisenhower and his vice president, richard millhous nixon. one of them often bullied the other and usually nixon on the receiving end. check out this 1960 campaign ad from then presidential candidate john f. kennedy. >> every republican politician wants you to believe that richard nixon is, quote, experienced. they even want you to believe that he has actually been making decisions in the white house, but listen to the man who should know best, the president of the united states. a...
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>> that's why the great gary wills said richard nixon was the last liberal, and there is a reference -- willie brown is right, there should have been more. in a longer piece there would be more on that, on the philadelphia plan, but, yes, affirmative action, a phrase originated in the kennedy years, was seized on by the nixon administration. hey, daniel patrick moynihan said about nixon, this guy is not trying to undo the great society, he wants to outdo it. and what happened? ideologues within the conservative movement turned against nixon. >> well -- >> women -- >> let me go to willie brown. i know nixon. i'm not necessarily a nixon hater by any means. he was a member of the naacp in the '50s. pretty friendly with whitney young, getting to know martin luther king ahead of the kennedys. and then becomes a totally mean guy in terms of electoral politics, hooking up with strom thurmond figuring he was going to grab what was left of the segregationists in the south when they were disappointed with the democrats. what happened to this guy? >> i think sam's piece clearly indicates that n
>> that's why the great gary wills said richard nixon was the last liberal, and there is a reference -- willie brown is right, there should have been more. in a longer piece there would be more on that, on the philadelphia plan, but, yes, affirmative action, a phrase originated in the kennedy years, was seized on by the nixon administration. hey, daniel patrick moynihan said about nixon, this guy is not trying to undo the great society, he wants to outdo it. and what happened? ideologues...
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richard nixon had a truncated second term. the voters are giving you another four years is the big mark of creating a legacy. we do not like to get rid of presidents in the middle of a war. you do not want to change commanders midway through. i grew up in ohio. we were just down the road from fremont where rutherford b. hayes was president. he said we needed one term at six years. some people argued it would stop presidents to do what is expedient to what is right for the country. you have a short time to get things done then you're back campaigning again. some of our greatest presidents had second terms. host: why do presidents have two terms? guest: many want to stay in power. look at barack obama. his biggest achievement was obamacare. he needs a second term to institutionalize that, make it almost a birthright. if he had one term, obamacare one of been overturned or driven out of office. you can see how long portman that eight years to be able to change the bureaucracy and brand your policies in a real way. also the suprem
richard nixon had a truncated second term. the voters are giving you another four years is the big mark of creating a legacy. we do not like to get rid of presidents in the middle of a war. you do not want to change commanders midway through. i grew up in ohio. we were just down the road from fremont where rutherford b. hayes was president. he said we needed one term at six years. some people argued it would stop presidents to do what is expedient to what is right for the country. you have a...
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. >> i think ronald reagan changed the trajectory of america in a way that, you know, richard nixon did not, and in a way that bill clinton did not. >> i'm sure bill clinton didn't hear that. anyway, president clinton landed in hot water after he compared candidate obama's primary victory down in south carolina to that of jesse jackson's years earlier. some accused clinton of marginalizing obama as the black candidate. let's watch. >> jesse jackson won south carolina twice in '84 and '88. and he ran a good campaign. and senator obama is running a good campaign. he is a good candidate. >> well, there you have it. let me ask you about a deeper question, not the cheap shots or the obvious analysis based on either sides point of view, david. you know this better than anybody. but the natural rivalry, the stuff that just happens because you have to be a rival. if barack obama is a transformational president, meaning he is the guy that did health care. he is the guy that has his successor elected, a democratic successor elected. he is the guy that starts a real era. can he win and the clinton
. >> i think ronald reagan changed the trajectory of america in a way that, you know, richard nixon did not, and in a way that bill clinton did not. >> i'm sure bill clinton didn't hear that. anyway, president clinton landed in hot water after he compared candidate obama's primary victory down in south carolina to that of jesse jackson's years earlier. some accused clinton of marginalizing obama as the black candidate. let's watch. >> jesse jackson won south carolina twice in...
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richard nixon called for working together in his 1974 address, a year after his landslide reelection. >> i want you to know that i have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job the people elected me to do. >> instead two months later, nixon owned up to his roll n watergate and eventually resigned. ronald reagan was swept into a second term with a 49-state landslide. >> there no constraints and no walls around the human spirit and no barriers. >> many of the second term plans fell to the wayside as his administration was consumed. in 1997 after leading americans through four years of economic growth, president clinton promised something that hasn't been done in three decades. >> we must keep the economy the strongest in the world and have an historic opportunity. let this congress be the congress that finally balances the budget. >> with the help of congress, he did. tonight another stares down ghosts of the past, hoping to find a new way forward for an uncertain nation. and joining us now from the white house, director of the national economic council, gene sperling. co
richard nixon called for working together in his 1974 address, a year after his landslide reelection. >> i want you to know that i have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job the people elected me to do. >> instead two months later, nixon owned up to his roll n watergate and eventually resigned. ronald reagan was swept into a second term with a 49-state landslide. >> there no constraints and no walls around the human spirit and no barriers. >> many of...
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. >> i think ronald reagan changed the trajectory of america, in a way that, you know, richard nixon did not. and in a way that bill clinton did not. >> i'm sure bill clinton didn't hear that. anyway, president clinton landed in hot water after he declared candidate obama's prior to that in jesse jackson. >> jesse jackson won south carolina twice in '84 and '88. senator obama is not a good campaign here. he's a good candidate. >> well, there you have it. let me ask you about a deeper question, not the cheap shots and the obvious analysis based on either side's point of view. and you know this better than anybody. the natural rivalry, the stuff that just happens because you have to be a rival. if barack obama is a transformational president, he's the guy that has the democratic successor elected. he's the guy that starts a real era? can he win and the clintons not win? or is there a natural rivalry here? >> well, there is a natural rivalry. but, right now, that i hey're inextricably linked. that's what's interesting about this moment in history for the first time, really, starting wit
. >> i think ronald reagan changed the trajectory of america, in a way that, you know, richard nixon did not. and in a way that bill clinton did not. >> i'm sure bill clinton didn't hear that. anyway, president clinton landed in hot water after he declared candidate obama's prior to that in jesse jackson. >> jesse jackson won south carolina twice in '84 and '88. senator obama is not a good campaign here. he's a good candidate. >> well, there you have it. let me ask you...
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richard nixon vetoed it. so i thought it was a bold, new idea for the president but actually -- >> there's nothing under the sun, bill. >> bill: we're learning that. >> what's old is new again. >> bill: it seems to me again it is a no-brainer. republicans say no no, brainwashing our kids maybe. the federal government should be involved. >> i guess more the money thing bill. there isn't a price tag put on this that i know of. it is part of the problem. people feel like giving the sequester, it will be hard to put something like that online financially. >> bill: is the white house still confident that they can get chuck hagel john brennan and jack lew all confirmed? >> if they can ever avoid the holes. that gets into senate rules which i'm not familiar with. got rand paul saying he was going to put a hold on hagel and brennan. harry reid said he's not going to recognize the hold. i think it has to be worked out behind closed doors on capitol hill. my understanding is they're hoping for a hagel vote tomorrow. i
richard nixon vetoed it. so i thought it was a bold, new idea for the president but actually -- >> there's nothing under the sun, bill. >> bill: we're learning that. >> what's old is new again. >> bill: it seems to me again it is a no-brainer. republicans say no no, brainwashing our kids maybe. the federal government should be involved. >> i guess more the money thing bill. there isn't a price tag put on this that i know of. it is part of the problem. people feel...
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what ended up happening was suburbanites turned on the democrats and we got richard nixon. we can prematurely declare these things sometimes. a cautionary note. >> goldie, the piece says today's gop is taking its cues from john calhoun and his belief in nullification. the idea that states can ignore federal law. he writes it's not a coincidence that the resurgence of nullification is happening while our first african-american president is in office. how du the gop reach out to a broader demographic when we see how it's treated this nation's first black president? >> that is the grand irony but the truth of the matter is they're not only hearkening back to calhoun, but they're playing the script of kevin phillips who was the chief architect of the southern strategy. this was the chaining together of those southern confederate states, those 11 states, with what was happening out west and up through the midwest, and he said at the time we can frankly do without manhattan. we can do without new york. we can do without chicago. we can do without all these major city that is were
what ended up happening was suburbanites turned on the democrats and we got richard nixon. we can prematurely declare these things sometimes. a cautionary note. >> goldie, the piece says today's gop is taking its cues from john calhoun and his belief in nullification. the idea that states can ignore federal law. he writes it's not a coincidence that the resurgence of nullification is happening while our first african-american president is in office. how du the gop reach out to a broader...
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in 1974, some inadvertent foreshadowing from president richard nixon. >> i urge the congress to join me in mounting a major new effort to disgrace the president -- present new welfare president. >> tonight i ask you to support new funding for the following things, to make american communities more liberal -- livable. >> there was always loud applause, but also head shaking, stony silence and the extreme disapproval and a full out yelling of not true from supreme court justice samuel al liee al. on the subject of dreams and nightmares, guess w
in 1974, some inadvertent foreshadowing from president richard nixon. >> i urge the congress to join me in mounting a major new effort to disgrace the president -- present new welfare president. >> tonight i ask you to support new funding for the following things, to make american communities more liberal -- livable. >> there was always loud applause, but also head shaking, stony silence and the extreme disapproval and a full out yelling of not true from supreme court justice...
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in 1974, some inadvertent foreshadowing from president richard nixon. >> i urge the congress to join me in mounting a major new effort to disgrace the president -- present new welfare president. >> tonight i ask you to support new funding for the following things, to make american communities more liberal -- livable. >> there was always loud applause, but also head shaking, stony silence and the extreme disapproval and a full out yelling of not true from supreme court justice samuel al liee al. on the subject of dreams and nightmares, guess w which one john mccain was having in 2007, oh, a big yawn from harry reid in 2010, and from vice president biden, perhaps a moment of meditation. but so much sitting and standing and clapping, easy to see why he might have a timing issue. >> less than 1%. >> there's the air boxing fist pump. >> that dream is why a working class kid from scranton can sit behind me. >> and of course the palms to the sky shrug. >> because nobody messes with joe. >> reporter: we have the constitution to thank for this annual address and even if the state of the union
in 1974, some inadvertent foreshadowing from president richard nixon. >> i urge the congress to join me in mounting a major new effort to disgrace the president -- present new welfare president. >> tonight i ask you to support new funding for the following things, to make american communities more liberal -- livable. >> there was always loud applause, but also head shaking, stony silence and the extreme disapproval and a full out yelling of not true from supreme court justice...
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and we know that it happened after richard nixon revived a phrase of john f. kennedy's from the early '60s, affirmative action. he began with the philadelphia plan, to open up closed labor unions, in that city, philadelphia, businesses embraced the idea. william f. buckley jr. in 1970 said let's have preferential hiring. it was another wing of the conservative movement, the neoconservatives who objected to affirmative action, called it affirmative discrimination. but the author of that argument, nathan glazer, then recanted. why did he recant? because just as you say, businesses were willing to do it. this is not about business. this is about as howard dean said the hard-core ideology of a conservative movement which continues to drive that party. >> okay, sam, we're going to leave it there. thank you for heating up the set here. >> any time. >> we appreciate it. >> joe, appreciate it. >> thanks. >> we've got some msnbc's viewers. maybe just a couple of them. i don't know. maybe not. maybe zero. >> i want to shower after that. >> he's right. he's right. >> the
and we know that it happened after richard nixon revived a phrase of john f. kennedy's from the early '60s, affirmative action. he began with the philadelphia plan, to open up closed labor unions, in that city, philadelphia, businesses embraced the idea. william f. buckley jr. in 1970 said let's have preferential hiring. it was another wing of the conservative movement, the neoconservatives who objected to affirmative action, called it affirmative discrimination. but the author of that...
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so when ronald reagan and richard nixon had to go up against a media culture that absolutely hated them, that despised them, that ran them into the ground every night and there was no conservative outlet, they won 49 states. listen, i'm a conservative. i like conservative outlets to go to when i get frustrated looking at the mainstream media. but for people that think, chris, they have to stay in this little box, i've got bad news for you. it's not working. >> well, rush limbaugh's a great example, guys, because he's enormously successful. he makes a lot of money and he deserves it because he's a great showman. but he basically place to a very narrow cast of republicans, usually middle aged white men. i'm not knocking him, but that's never going to be 51% of the country. he knows who his market is, guys driving around, marketing salesmen in car, he tells them they're the greatest guys in the world because they're carrying the load in this country and those -- he plays to them. it's brill. but it's not 51% of the country and that's why it disserves the republican party to listen to this
so when ronald reagan and richard nixon had to go up against a media culture that absolutely hated them, that despised them, that ran them into the ground every night and there was no conservative outlet, they won 49 states. listen, i'm a conservative. i like conservative outlets to go to when i get frustrated looking at the mainstream media. but for people that think, chris, they have to stay in this little box, i've got bad news for you. it's not working. >> well, rush limbaugh's a...